Supreme Court of India
Saibanna v. State of Karnataka
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the High Court was right in coming to the conclusion that the appellant's case bristles with special circumstances requisite for imposition of the death B penalty.
Judgment, page 10
From the headnote
Pena! Code, 1860-Section 302-Pre-planned brutal murder without provocation- "Rarest of rare case"-Death sentence-Accused-appellant was already convicted to life imprisonment for murder of his first wife-While he was out on parole, suspecting the fidelity of his second wife, he murdered her as also his minor daughter of I~ years, when they were asleep, by assaulting them with a hunting knife-Imposition of death sentence by Courts below after convicting appellant under Section 302-Justification of-Held: Justified Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-Sections 235(2) r/w 354(3) and 427 (2).
Where later benches applied it
- 2015 Shabnam v. State of U. P.
- 2025 Sukhdev Yadav @ Pehalwan v. State of (nct of Delhi) & Others
- 2014 Mofil Khan & Anr. v. State of Jharkhand
- 2011 Ajitsingh Harnamsingh Gujral v. State of Maharashtra
Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to
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